A priest at the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization has said Sister Cristina Scuccia, who recently won The Voice Italy, is an example of how the Church must go out to the existential peripheries.

“What Sister Cristina has done can be considered going out to the peripheries, because she has gone to a different stage to bear witness to her choice of life, and in this sense I think she has hit the target,” Father Alejandro Diaz, a Colombian, said in a recent interview with CNA.

Like Sister Cristina, he explained, “we have to come out ourselves to speak of God to others, not in the abstract, but about what God has done in our lives.”

At the beginning of June, the 25 year-old religious won The Voice Italy and gained world-wide acclaim for her charisma and ability to bring share the Word of God with the public.

“I have a dream, which is to hold hands and pray together the Our Father,” she told the studio audience when she won. “I want Jesus to enter into here.”

Sister Cristina “sings but she also talks about God and invites people to pray,” the priest noted.

“She said she wanted to transmit a gift, and to me it was not only the gift of her singing ability but also the gift of her vocation, because she is a young religious who went on this stage without fear and said, ‘I am a religious, I believe in God.’”

He said Sister Cristina should not be made into an idol but should be seen as a means of reaching God, because “the Holy Spirit will always be the great evangelizer, and he doesn’t have only one method or stage for bring people close to Christ. There are many ways to evangelize and Sister Cristina has shown us one of them.”

In accord with the synod for the new evangelization in 2012, which recognized that beauty is a means of evangelization, Fr. Diaz said Sister Cristina’s example shows that it is possible to be a witness to the faith in the media and through art. …

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